Hey group, I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last year I have been using Ubuntu.
I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frustrations with Ubuntu because it could be a pain to get newer versions of packages installed. For example Ubuntu defaulted to Apache 1.x for mod_mono. I have now been using Gentoo for a few days and I am running into some issues I hope this group can help with. At first emerge was trying to merge some really old packages. For example I wanted mysql 5.x, php 5.x and Apache 2.x and Gentoo was only going to install mysql 4.x. I did find out about ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" which has helped with getting more recent versions of software installed. I am looking for any good links, tips, suggestions of admin software to emerge, etc to help me learn the ins-and-outs of Gentoo. I have tons of questions but don't know where to look. Well, I can google but that takes ages and I was hoping many of you on this list will have a nice set of bookmarks on gentoo admin, handy gentoo software, tips etc. Some tasks I could do in Fedora/Ubuntu that I want to know how to do on Gentoo: See list of all *installed* software. Browse available software that can be installed. See what version of a particular software package is installed. See if any new versions of *installed* software are available. ... Thanks, Jim -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
